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The notion of a "cluster" cannot be precisely defined, which is one of the reasons why there are so many clustering algorithms. [5] There is a common denominator: a group of data objects. However, different researchers employ different cluster models, and for each of these cluster models again different algorithms can be given.
Automatic clustering algorithms are algorithms that can perform clustering without prior knowledge of data sets. In contrast with other cluster analysis techniques, automatic clustering algorithms can determine the optimal number of clusters even in the presence of noise and outlier points. [1] [needs context]
The standard algorithm for hierarchical agglomerative clustering (HAC) has a time complexity of () and requires () memory, which makes it too slow for even medium data sets. . However, for some special cases, optimal efficient agglomerative methods (of complexity ()) are known: SLINK [2] for single-linkage and CLINK [3] for complete-linkage clusteri
The algorithm is often presented as assigning objects to the nearest cluster by distance. Using a different distance function other than (squared) Euclidean distance may prevent the algorithm from converging. Various modifications of k-means such as spherical k-means and k-medoids have been proposed to allow using other distance measures ...
This category contains algorithms used for cluster analysis. Pages in category "Cluster analysis algorithms" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total.
Cluster Algorithm. Hierarchical Clustering. Agglomerative Clustering: Bottom-up approach. Each cluster is small and then aggregates together to form larger clusters. [3] Divisive Clustering: Top-down approach. Large clusters are split into smaller clusters. [3] Density-based Clustering: A structure is determined by the density of data points ...
If a Gaussian mixture is fitted to such data, a strongly non-Gaussian cluster will often be represented by several mixture components rather than a single one. In that case, cluster merging can be used to find a better clustering. [20] A different approach is to use mixtures of complex component densities to represent non-Gaussian clusters. [21 ...
Alternative linkage schemes include single linkage clustering and average linkage clustering - implementing a different linkage in the naive algorithm is simply a matter of using a different formula to calculate inter-cluster distances in the initial computation of the proximity matrix and in step 4 of the above algorithm. An optimally ...